Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which prisons in England and Wales have contracted out health services to non-NHS providers; and if he will list those providers for each prison.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
Since 2013, NHS England has been responsible for commissioning healthcare in all prisons in England. However, there are five prisons where primary healthcare services are commissioned by the Ministry of Justice (MOJ). In these five prisons some secondary healthcare services, including substance misuse and mental health, are commissioned by NHS England.
The National Prison Healthcare Board oversees the provision of relevant services which are delivered under contract to MOJ.
Local Health Boards are responsible for commissioning healthcare services in public sector prisons in Wales.
Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many inmates are enrolled on stop smoking courses and treatments.
Answered by Steve Brine
The data are not collected at national level in the format requested.
Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what specific medical provision has been put in place for prisoners who are over 60 years of age.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
NHS England is responsible for commissioning all healthcare services for prisoners (including drug and alcohol services) in England. Services are commissioned for individual prisons by NHS England’s local commissioners, based on a local health needs assessment which informs the provision required.
In the case of the primary and secondary healthcare commissioned services, there are national specifications to which patient specific services can be added. For those prisons which have predominantly elderly patient cohorts, these additions will ensure that age related conditions are specifically assessed and provided for.
NHS England commissions specific dementia care service, end of life and palliative care provision, supports the prisons’ approach to the local authorities’ assessment and management of social care, and ensures that elderly patients are supported in accessing healthcare services.
Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to paragraph 5.7 of the Spring Budget 2017, what estimate he has made of how much of the £100 million funding for capital investment in accident and emergency departments in 2017-18 will be allocated to (a) Leeds General Infirmary and (b) St James' Hospital, Leeds.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The Department will manage the approval of funding to accident and emergency (A&E) departments based on recommendations from NHS England and NHS Improvement, according to the merit of individual bids made and the impact they will have on managing A&E pressures.
Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to paragraph 5.8 of the Spring Budget 2017, what estimate he has made of how much of £325 million funding for local sustainability and transformation plans will be allocated to (a) Leeds East constituency, (b) Leeds and (c) Yorkshire.
Answered by David Mowat
The Department has not yet determined which Sustainability and Transformation Plan areas will receive the additional funding allocated in the Spring Budget.
Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GPs were practising in the Leeds Primary Care Trust and its successor clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in each year since 2010; and what the national average number of GPs practising in a primary care trust and its successor CCGs was in each year since 2010.
Answered by David Mowat
The information requested is in the attached documents.
It should be noted that health is a devolved subject, therefore the Department only holds information on general practitioner numbers in England, rather than for the whole of the United Kingdom.
Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the GP to patient ratio was in (a) Leeds East constituency and (b) the UK in each year since 2010.
Answered by David Mowat
The information requested is in the attached documents.
It should be noted that health is a devolved subject, therefore the Department only holds information on general practitioner numbers in England, rather than for the whole of the United Kingdom.
Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients starting consultant-led treatment have waited 18 weeks or more from GP referral in (a) Leeds, (b) West Yorkshire and (c) the UK in each year since 2010.
Answered by Philip Dunne
NHS England publishes data on how many patients waited 18 weeks or more from general practitioner referral to first definitive treatment, by admitted to hospital and non-admitted outpatient pathways.
The table attached shows the number of admitted pathways and number of non-admitted pathways over 18 weeks by month from April 2010 in Leeds, West Yorkshire and England. Health is a devolved matter in the rest of the United Kingdom.
Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what statutory duty there is on NHS England or clinical commissioning groups to provide notice of closure of a GP practice to its patients.
Answered by Alistair Burt
GP Contract regulations require a practice to give NHS England written notice of their intention to terminate their contract. Where the contract is with a partnership, the contract terminates six months from the date of the notice. In the case of a single handed practice, the contract terminates three months from the date of the notice.
There is no specific statutory duty on NHS England to notify patients of the closure of a practice however the National Health Service Act 2006 requires NHS England to ensure the provision of primary medical services throughout England.
However, NHS England take the closure of a practice very seriously and will look to engage with patients at the earliest opportunity.
Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what statutory duty there is on individual general practitioners to provide notice of closure of a GP practice to NHS England or clinical commissioning group.
Answered by Alistair Burt
GP Contract regulations require a practice to give NHS England written notice of their intention to terminate their contract. Where the contract is with a partnership, the contract terminates six months from the date of the notice. In the case of a single handed practice, the contract terminates three months from the date of the notice.
There is no specific statutory duty on NHS England to notify patients of the closure of a practice however the National Health Service Act 2006 requires NHS England to ensure the provision of primary medical services throughout England.
However, NHS England take the closure of a practice very seriously and will look to engage with patients at the earliest opportunity.